Schalchen (Upper Austria)

Bowl

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Basic data

Country: Austria

State : Upper Austria

Political District : Braunau am Inn

License plate : BR

Surface: 41.1 km²

Coordinates : 48 ° 7 ' N , 13 ° 9' E Coordinates: 48 ° 7 '8 " N , 13 ° 9' 25" E48.118888888889 13.156944444444 438

Height : 438 m above sea level A.

Residents : 3,989 (January 1, 2020)

Population density : 97 inhabitants per km²

Postal code : 5231

Area code : 07742

Community code : 4 04 41

NUTS region AT311

Address of the
municipal administration: Municipal administration of SchalchenHauptstrasse 3 a
5231 Schalchen

Website: www.schalchen.at

politics

Mayor : Andreas Stuhlberger ( SPÖ )

Municipal Council : (2015)
(25 members)

12

7th

6th

12 7th 6th

A total of 25 seats

SPÖ : 12
ÖVP : 7
FPÖ : 6

Location of Schalchen in the Braunau am Inn district

West view of the village square with the parish church of St. Jacob

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Schalchen is a municipality in Upper Austria in the Braunau am Inn district in the Innviertel region with 3989 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The competent judicial district is the judicial district Mattighofen .

geography

Schalchen is located at an altitude of 439 m in the Innviertel. The extension is from north to south 10.8 km, from west to east 8.9 km. The total area is 41.4 km². 56% of the area is forested, 38.7% of the area is used for agriculture.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 25 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

Apple Hill (91)
Au (58)
Collecting (291)
Baumgarten (10)
Erb (232)
Furth (135)
Hauslberg (62)
Heat Gliding (26)
Langwiedmoos (42)
Mitterholzleiten (101)
Neudorf (89)
Oberharlochen (52)
Oberholzleiten (83)

Oberlindach (147)
Upper Vineyard (66)
Bowl (1724)
Stallhofen (187)
Unterharlochen (58)
Unterholzleiten (19)
Lower linden roof (28)
Perforated (84)
Lower Vineyard (180)
Vineyard (160)
Wiesing (52)
Zeiledt (12)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Furth, Schalchen, Unterlochen and Weinberg.

coat of arms

Official description of the municipal coat of arms : In silver over a blue, wavy shield base, two blue, diagonally crossed tear hooks with red stems, covered by a red, fallen shell. The municipality colors are blue-white-red.

history

The history of the community of Schalchen goes back to Roman times. Around 15 BC BC, Emperor Augustus conquered the Alpine countries and occupied the Kingdom of Noricum . At that time there was already a settlement, a cultural site and a cemetery in Schalchen-Mattighofen. The votive stone in the Schalchner parish church, which has been transformed into a baptismal font, and the altar stone in Mattighofen probably come from this consecration site.

In the first half of the 6th century, the pagan Bavarians immigrated to the western Eastern Alps and the foothills of the Alps and initially settled in the forest-free areas on the rivers. In the 7th and 8th centuries, Schalchen and the surrounding area were finally Christianized in the course of settlement by the Bavarians. In the 7th and 8th centuries, Schalchen belonged to the Bavarian ducal Agilolfinger family . In the 9th and 10th centuries it was part of the Carolingian royal court in Mattighofen.

As a chronicle from 1349 shows, the plague in Schalchen killed many people at that time . The people around Schalchen have always had a special relationship with the Kobernaußerwald , which was first mentioned in 748 as "Höhnhart". Wald und Bach (Schwemmbach) gave life to the people in and around Schalchen. By founding a Trift institute in 1760, the owners of the Kobernaußerwald were able to transport the wood on the Scheiterbach or Triftbach when the snow was melting.

In 1633 14 scythe factories belonged to the guild of scythe smiths, including two "zu Schalchen". In 1779, in the Treaty of Teschen, the Innviertel ( Innbaiern ), which had previously belonged to Bavaria, and thus Schalchen, was awarded to the Habsburgs. At the time of the Napoleonic Wars , the country was exploited by the French. The population became so poor that they ate roots and bark.

The foundation of the community of Schalchen can be traced back to the revolutionary year 1848, which finally brought the freedom of the farmers. In 1850, the rural community of Schalchen was formed from the cadastral communities of Schalchen, Unterlochen, Furth, Weinberg, Schnellberg and Obermünichthal, consisting of 37 villages with 463 houses and 2127 inhabitants. Franz Schnellberger, commonly known as Lengauer, was elected first mayor.

Schalchen, am Brunnbach, autumn 2014

In 1887 Karl Kaltenbrunner acquired the hammer mill "zu Schalchen" and modernized it in 1907.

In 1892 the town council decided to build a school in Schalchen. On May 1, 1899, the two-class primary school in Schalchen was opened. In 1900 a soup establishment was set up in the school to feed poor children and schoolchildren with long journeys to school. Due to the hard money shortage, the community of Schalchen was forced to issue emergency money in 1920. The consolidation of the currency on May 1, 1925 brought about the transition from the kroon to the shilling currency. The bricklayer and communist Josef Helmetsberger was executed on March 23, 1943 in Munich- Stadelheim . With the municipal council resolution of August 7, 1998, Adolf Hitler is no longer an honorary citizen of the municipality of Schalchen.

religion

The beginnings of Christian life probably go back to the 7th and 8th centuries. From 1100 to 1140, Schalchen broke away from the mother parish of Pischelsdorf and was responsible for Mattighofen from 1143 to 1438 as a separate parish. The first documentary mention of St. Jacob's Church in Schalchen is in 1143.

The St. Barbara Church is built around 1200. This is blocked in 1785 and canceled in 1848.

From 1530 Protestantism spreads in the country and does not stop at Schalchen. In 1438, Schalchen gave up the rank of parish to Mattighofen and only became a separate parish again for a few months in 1784 and then in 1961. In 1855 - not far from the former Barbarakirche - the Barbarakapelle, which is still in good condition today, was built.

Culture and sights

Parish church

Parish Church of St. James the Elder Ä .: The core of the church goes back to a Romanesque building. Replaced in the 15th century by a late Gothic building that still exists today. In 1696 baroque, in the choir and nave the Gothic vault ribs were removed and covered with stucco and ceiling paintings. High altar from 1677 with remarkable carved angel heads . The high altar painting was created by the Burghausen painter Tobias Schinagl. In the south side chapel is the Barbara group (1672) by the famous sculptor Thomas Schwanthaler from the former St. Barbara's Church , which was demolished around 1850. The carving group shows the father of the saint, who is striking a fatal blow with his sword.

Kaltenbrunner Manor: Built in 1742 in the Baroque style, the building at Kaltenbrunnerstrasse 11 was primarily used as a representative country house. It was partially destroyed by fire in 1887 and rebuilt true to the original in 1898. In 1904 a small chapel in neo-Gothic style was added. After the hammer mill owner Karl Kaltenbrunner acquired the house in 1906 and carried out several renovations, he had it declared as a manor . Except for the chapel and the horse stable, the property was demolished in 2016.

Former honorary citizen

Adolf Hitler (1889–1945), German Chancellor (honorary citizenship revoked in 1998)

Sons and daughters of the church

Friedrich Achleitner

Friedrich Achleitner (1930–2019), architect, architecture critic and writer (member of the Vienna Group )
Alisar Ailabouni (* 1989), photo model, winner of the fifth season of the casting show Germany's Next Top Model
Anton Berghamer (1878–1934), farmer, industrialist and politician
Charly Steinberger (1937–2019), cameraman

politics

The municipal councils are distributed as follows: 12 SPÖ, 7 ÖVP, 6 FPÖ. (As of 2015 election)

In October 2019, Andreas Stuhlberger was elected to succeed Stefan Fuchs as mayor.

mayor

until 2019: Stefan Fuchs (SPÖ)
since 2019: Andreas Stuhlberger (SPÖ)

Population development

In 1991 the municipality had 3,273 inhabitants according to the census. Since both the birth rate and the migration balance was positive, the population rose to 3,510 in 2001 and 3,688 in 2011 to 2018 to reach a new high of 3,877 people.